Agariya | |
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Native to | India |
Region | Chhattisgarh, Odisha, Madhya Pradesh |
Ethnicity | Agariya |
Native speakers | 72,000 (2007) [1] |
Indo-European
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Devanagari and Odia | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | agi |
Glottolog | agar1251 |
The Agariya language is a spurious language said to be spoken by the Agariya people, a community found in northern Chhattisgarh, western Odisha and eastern Madhya Pradesh. Although recorded in Ethnologue with an ISO code, the language is declared as being of the Dravidian languages and as unattested by Glottolog and its existence was explicitly denied by noted scholar of tribal traditions Verrier Elwin, and more recently by linguist Felix Rau and Paul Sidwell. This was primarily due to suspicions of the conflating of various different 'Agariya' tribes with different dialects. [2] Agariya shares similarities to languages such as Chhattisgarhi, Odia, and Sambalpuri. Agharia as the language claims to descent from the mixing of the languages Laria and Odia and Sambalpuri themselves, when the Laria language came in contact with Odia and Sambalpuri dialects, leading to lexical borrowing, making so that a native speaker has only retained about 5-6 percent of the original word list. [3]
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